Through Empowerment dollars, Cedar County Public Health has scholarships available for income-eligible preschoolers. In order for your family to receive scholarship funds, we have a simple two-page application for you to complete. In order for your family to be eligible for this grant, you must be a resident of Cedar County and the child needs to be 3-5 years old. If the child turns three in the middle of the year, we can start covering them the month they turn three.  Services will not be covered until an application has been completely processed. In order for the application to be processed, we MUST have paystubs if the parent/guardian is working.

Each month we will be tracking your child’s attendance in order to show that the Empowerment money is being used in the best way possible. If your child misses more than 25% of preschool days, we will discontinue the scholarship funds. Payments will be made directly to the preschool after we receive a bill from them each month. Funding will run through June 30, 2010. If your child will be in preschool during the summer, you will need to reapply for July and August.

If you have any questions please call 563-886-2226 or e-mail scampion@cedarcounty.org.